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Modern movies need stronger sex-worker characters

Bill Simmons: Billy's chalkboard pitch is proposed as an inspiration for Alec Baldwin's sales speech in Glengarry Glen Ross.

Bill Simmons: Vivian Ward, Lana, Ophelia, and Alabama are selected for a Mount Rushmore of film sex-worker characters.

No bad ideas in a brainstorm

Bill Simmons: Do not start a prostitution business in a morgue is proposed, then inverted into a lesson about recognizing opportunities.

The film

Night Shift (1982)

Directed by Ron Howard · Comedy

105 minutes

Cast

Selected cast credits · Film reference

Henry Winkler Chuck Lumley
Michael Keaton Bill Blazejowski
Shelley Long Belinda Keaton
Gina Hecht Charlotte Koogle
Pat Corley Edward Koogle
Bobby Di Cicco Leonard Carbone
Nita Talbot Vivian Lumley
Basil Hoffman Drollhauser
Clint Howard Jefferey
Joe Spinell Manetti
Grand L. Bush Mustafa
Dawn Dunlap Maxine
Kevin Costner frat boy #1
Shannen Doherty Bluebird
Floyd Levine "Uncle" Sal Corbone

Everything from the episode

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1:00:28

Vincent Hanna Award for an Unmentioned Drug Addiction Explains This Character

Billy Blaze

Billy Blaze

The panel proposes a new category here.

In the discussion (1)
Approx. transcript time · 01:00:28Read transcript
  • Billy's constant energy is proposed as being explained by an unmentioned cocaine addiction. — Bill Simmons

Mentions across The Rewatchables

Recorded movie reference

Apollo 13

The Rewatchables · aired August 25, 2026

Night Shift is listed in the sourced research for this episode. The precise discussion has not been linked yet.